Abstract
In dialogue with recent debates on the representation of the dictatorship period in Argentina, this paper explores how the concepts of testimony and memory are re-conceptualized in Luis Gusmán's Villa. This novel takes up what has only marginally been developed by most critical texts on the period: the complicity of a portion of Argentine society with the military objectives and tactics of those years. While most studies of the dictatorship period focus on the testimonies of the victims of State terror or on the cultural production that ethically resisted the repressive tactics of those years, the novel foregrounds the process of disavowal (Verleugnung) as constitutive of another type of testimony that also forms part of the 'social memory' of that period. This type of memory and the consequences of its transmission are what the novel asks the reader to consider.
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